From Lubogo to the world : Ugandan intellectual export as soft power

Abstract

This is not a book of simple celebration. Uganda faces enormous challenges in education, intellectual freedom, infrastructure, and policy. Those challenges are discussed honestly in these pages, particularly in Part IV. But this is also not a book of lamentation. Too much African intellectual discourse is consumed by cataloguing what is lacking, what has been taken, and what remains undone. This book asks a different question: given all that we have produced — given the minds we have sent into the world — what does Uganda's intellectual legacy look like? The answer, I argue, is far more impressive than the world has been led to believe.